Specifically Designed for Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, and Other Educators Teaching Mathematics in Grades K-3

Assessment strategies that provide the necessary data to group and teach students at their best instructional level

Math center ideas to engage your students in meaningful math work allowing you to teach small, guided math groups

Practical Ideas and Strategies

In this highly practical seminar, Kelly Harmon will share a variety of guided math techniques, including how to plan and implement small guided math groups designed to better meet your students’ needs – from those who excel in math to those who struggle with basic math skills. You will learn the top, research-based instructional strategies that will help your students learn and retain key math skills and concepts, and how to transfer these skills to math problem solving. In addition, Kelly will give assessment ideas that will guide you in forming flexible and intentional small groups to better meet each student at their instructional level.

You will leave this outstanding seminar with renewed enthusiasm about teaching mathematics as well as a wealth of ideas for implementing guided math in your own classroom.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to participate in this high-energy seminar that will leave you with dozens of strategies and ideas you can use immediately in your own math classroom.

Explore the Power of Small Group Guided Math Instruction
Ideal grouping strategies for small group lesson plans to meet students at their instructional level, steps for reciprocal teaching, and how to develop procedural knowledge and procedural flexibility … Scaffold your students’ learning using small, focused guided math groups

What to Do with the Rest of Your Class While You Meet with Guided Math Groups
Use independent practice activities and math stations that naturally differentiate for student needs … Help your students learn to make choices based on their math learning goals … Discover new math games and tech tools for math practice and fluency

Help All Your Students Achieve Grade Level Math Goals
Boost students’ skills and understanding of number sense, basic facts, measurement, geometry, problem solving, and more … Ideas to help your students meet grade level standards

Efficient and Effective Assessment Strategies to Group Students for Greater Results
Minute-by-minute progress monitoring that will help you take immediate action to adapt instruction … Unit and lesson planning tips based on assessments … Help students set and track their own math learning goals and develop a growth mindset for math success

Utilize Research-Based Instructional Strategies
Use what we know works to make learning stick … How to incorporate the top, proven instructional strategies that will greatly increase student learning

Practical Guided Math Strategies to Differentiate Your Math Instruction
Practical and doable strategies for implementing small, guided math instructional groups and math centers that will build and reinforce your students’ math skills at their best level of proximal development

Challenge Your Top Math Students While Addressing the Needs of Your Struggling Students
How you can find time for pre-teaching, re-teaching and practice with students who need it the most while your highly capable math students are challenged with meaningful math work at their level

Explore the Power of Guided Math to Teach Problem Solving
Today’s rigorous standards call for students to develop a deep understanding of the relationship between various number concepts that will assist them in problem solving … Explore proven strategies that enable students to understand and solve challenging problems with fluency, ease and confidence

Proven Guided Math Strategies to Help Students Process Key Math Skills and Concepts for Greater Understanding and Application
Steps for implementing successful math talks along with key questioning strategies to help students examine math reasoning … How to engage your students in math journaling, including drawing and writing about math

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Given the range of students’ mathematical skills, we must know how to balance a variety of instructional models including whole group and direct instructional strategies, as well as small group lessons and interventions to meet individual student needs. When used correctly, guided math allows teachers to provide the necessary differentiated instruction that leads to success for all students. I am excited to spend a day together devoted to enhancing and strengthening guided math in your classroom to accelerate the math achievement of all your students.

During our day together, some of the topics we’ll explore are:

A wealth of highly effective, timesaving strategies to make guided math work in your classroom

Outstanding ideas, ready-to-use math lessons and a variety of resources for assessing and teaching math skills and concepts in a guided math format

What the rest of your students are doing while you work with small groups

How guided math makes differentiation possible to better meet the needs of all your students

I am truly excited to offer dozens of ideas, tips and suggestions you can take back to your classroom and immediately use to strengthen and enhance your math instruction using guided math. Please join me for a day that promises to be dynamic, fast-paced and packed with ideas to increase all your students’ achievement in mathematics.

Sincerely,
Kelly Harmon

P.S.You will receive an extensive resource handbook written specifically for this seminar. It is filled with all the strategies and ideas we’ll discuss during our day together.

Who Should Attend

Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, and Other Educators Teaching Mathematics in Grades K-3

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

Dozens of practical guided math strategies and how to use them in your own classroom

How to group students efficiently

Examples of math centers you can adapt to meet your needs

Steps for student goal setting and action planning that include the math centers or stations they need to visit

How to collect minute-by-minute data to determine which move to take next

How to plan for scaffolding to mastery

Elements of effective guided and independent practice

Meet and Share
This seminar provides participants a great opportunity to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in practical strategies to enhance their math instruction.

Consultation Available
Kelly Harmon will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four Graduate level professional development credit are available with an additional fee and completion of follow up practicum activities.
Details for direct enrollment with Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at this BER program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive
a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in
meeting continuing education requirements.